One of the biggest emerging challenges for telco operators is to dynamically create new services while maintaining the network at its optimal performance/revenue break point. To this end, operators are moving to a much leaner cloud-based Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure to achieve a truly programmable network fabric. While cloud services can be provisioned in seconds and tested in-production, service provisioning in SDNs still lasts many weeks and requires substantial manual effort. A large part of this service creation time can be attributed to testing and tuning the control plane. In this paper we present SCP-CLUB (SDN Control Plane CLoUd-based Benchmarking), a platform for in-production performance testing of telco operator SDNs, offering a level of automation as available in deploying cloud services. Telco cloud SDN performance testing with SCP-CLUB focuses on the analysis of how design choices in the cloud and SDN control planes influence SLA metrics like throughput and latency. We describe the SCP-CLUB architecture and its performance testing support capabilities. Experiments are performed on an SDN telco cloud built to demonstrate SCP-CLUB under production load condi- tions.

In Production Performance Testing of SDN Control Plane for Telecom Operators / Di Martino, Catello; Giordano, Ugo; Mohanasamy, Nishok N.; Russo, Stefano; Thottan, Marina. - (2018), pp. 642-653. (Intervento presentato al convegno 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks tenutosi a Luxembourg nel 25-28 June 2018) [10.1109/DSN.2018.00071].

In Production Performance Testing of SDN Control Plane for Telecom Operators

Ugo Giordano;Stefano Russo;
2018

Abstract

One of the biggest emerging challenges for telco operators is to dynamically create new services while maintaining the network at its optimal performance/revenue break point. To this end, operators are moving to a much leaner cloud-based Software Defined Network (SDN) infrastructure to achieve a truly programmable network fabric. While cloud services can be provisioned in seconds and tested in-production, service provisioning in SDNs still lasts many weeks and requires substantial manual effort. A large part of this service creation time can be attributed to testing and tuning the control plane. In this paper we present SCP-CLUB (SDN Control Plane CLoUd-based Benchmarking), a platform for in-production performance testing of telco operator SDNs, offering a level of automation as available in deploying cloud services. Telco cloud SDN performance testing with SCP-CLUB focuses on the analysis of how design choices in the cloud and SDN control planes influence SLA metrics like throughput and latency. We describe the SCP-CLUB architecture and its performance testing support capabilities. Experiments are performed on an SDN telco cloud built to demonstrate SCP-CLUB under production load condi- tions.
2018
978-1-5386-5595-5
In Production Performance Testing of SDN Control Plane for Telecom Operators / Di Martino, Catello; Giordano, Ugo; Mohanasamy, Nishok N.; Russo, Stefano; Thottan, Marina. - (2018), pp. 642-653. (Intervento presentato al convegno 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks tenutosi a Luxembourg nel 25-28 June 2018) [10.1109/DSN.2018.00071].
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